Hi, Valery.

Just wanted to extend a bit of a belated welcome here to The Wild Geese.  Hope you've had the opportunity to look around the site to see what's on offer.  Of course, there is even more to come.  It's a great little burgeoning community with loads of interesting folks enjoying the discussion of all-things-Irish.

Hope to hear more about your own Irish connections here in the days ahead.  I'm just up the road a bit from you in Connemara.

Thanks, Valery ... and welcome aboard!

~ Ryan

Welcome to you, Valery. A friend of mine named Harkin told me a lot of Larkins in the North changed their name to Harkin during the Penal laws because they were great resisters and the British hunted them. There is a lot of great history to the Larkin name.